I work for an insurance company. I actually report to two different departments: Underwriting and Operations.
Years ago, I used to get hit up to donate to two different Underwriting manager and also to at least one operations manager. I started ignoring all of the requests.
So, things have changed in regards to our reporting structure and now I only get hit up to donate to two Operations mangers. However, I continued my tradition of ignoring management gift requests. I ignored all of the requests to Venmo $10 each for two different managers. Apparently, some people did give, because I saw in my email box the email thank you's from the 2 managers that they had received their gifts from “the team.”
Today, I received in the mail my “gifts” from “the management” at my company. It was a bunch of stuff from our Marketing closet – that's right, it was a bunch of company swag with our company logo, the same stuff that we give our clients.